Memorandum pad binders



April 1956 H. E. GOULD 2,741,495

MEMORANDUM PAD BINDERS Filed Sept. 16, 1955 2542?.2'7721677202 373 Harz g I. ozzZa' yfiz-aM o fa United States Patent MEMORANDUM PAD BINDERS Harry E. Gould, Sherman ()aits, Calif.

Application September 16, 1953, Serial No. 380,575

3 Claims. (Cl. 281-19) This invention relates to improvements in memorandum pad binders or the like, wherein the binders are so constructed that the pads may be removed or replaced as required.

It has been proposed to manufacture memorandum pads, notebooks, and the like, in the form of a relatively stiff and wear-resistant binder and a separable filler releasably held in the hinder, the filler being removed or replaced as desired. In one form, the filler and binder are provided with interengaging metallic holder elements which may be assembled by exerting pressure on the metallic element of the filler to push it into the corresponding metallic element on the cover and disassembled by pulling the two metallic elements apart to remove the filler from the cover. A snap action spring clip incorporated in one of the elements makes this form of assembly and separation feasible without the need for any pins or screw posts.

The fillers for binders of the type described are usually in the form of a bound or glued pad having perforations across the tops of the sheets in the pad to enable the sheets to be torn out without difiiculty. After each sheet in the filler has been torn off, a relatively small and somewhat inaccessible stub remains. Although the pad is readily insertable into a binder of this type, it is somewhat diflicult to grasp the stub which remains and exert thereon the requisite pull to free it from the binder, so that another filler can be inserted thereinto.

A general object of this invention, in its broader aspects, isto provide an improved holding means for a pad or the like in a binder therefor, wherein the pad is not only readily insertable into the binder, but the remnant thereof, after the usable portions of the pad have been torn oil, is equally as readily removable from the binder.

Another object of my invention is to provide a holder for a removable pad or the like in a binder, wherein the pad may be inserted into the binder by a simple pushing operation in one direction to cause a spring clip to catch and hold the pad in the binder during normal use of the pad, and wherein the stub remnant of the pad may be removable from the binder by a simple sliding action normal to the direction of insertion.

My invention has for another object the provision of a holder for a pad or the like in a binder, wherein the pad is pushed into place in the binder against the action of a snap action clip and is withdrawn from the binder by a mere sliding action against a frictional holding means which has no snap action.

These and other objects of this invention will become apparent from the following detailed description when taken together with the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a binder and removable filler pad incorporating the filler holding means of this invention;

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective, and drawn to a larger ice '2 scale than Fig. l, of the portion of the holding means which is afiixed to the binder;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the portion of the holding means which is afdxed to the removable filler pad;

Fig. 4 is a front elevational view of the holding means portion shown in Fig. 2, with parts shown in section as indicated by a line 44 in Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a side sectional View of the holding means portion shown in Fig. 4, with the section taken substantially on a line 55 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a top sectional view of the holding means portion shown in Fig. 4, wherein the section is taken substantially as indicated by a line 66 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 7 is a front sectional View of the holding means shown in Fig. 3, the section being taken substantially on a line 77 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary side sectional view of the assembled binder and filler drawn to a larger scale than Fig. l, and wherein the section is taken substantially at the position indicated by a line 88 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary view in perspective of the assembled binder and filler of Fig. 1 after the useable portion of the pad has been exhausted, and wherein the remaining stub is shown partially removed from the binder.

Referring now to the drawings for a detailed description of the illustrative form of the invention depicted therein, there is shown in Fig. l, a binder 10 which, in this instance, is provided with flexible top and bottom covers 11 and 12, respectively, and a connecting back portion 13. For ease of manufacture, the top, bottom and back portions may be made from a single piece of flexible wear-resistant material which, however, is sufiiciently resistant to bending to provide a relatively firm or stifi support for a filler 14 which filler, as depicted, comprises a plurality of sheets of paper assembled together in the form of a pad. Preferably, each sheet of the filler has a row of perforations 15 near the end which is adapted for mounting adjacent the closed or hinged end 13 of the binder, whereby each sheet may be readily torn from the pad and when so torn will leave a stub portion 16 as a remnant of the pad.

The sheets of the pad, as illustrated, are held together by gluing to a backing strip 17 which is preferably made of flexible but strong material and folded to hold the sheets together at one end during normal handling.

To the back 13 or" the binder 10 is secured a metal holder element 18, hereinafter termed holder, in the form of a channel, to be described hereinafter, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The holder 18 is formed with a substantially flat back portion 19 which is secured to the back portion 13 of the binder 10 by fastening elements, such as rivets (not shown) passing through openings 20 and 21 disposed at the end regions of back portion 19.

An upper side 22 of the holder 13 is provided witha relatively short forwardly projecting tongue portion 23 in which a groove or recess 24 is formed, which groove or recess extends longitudinally along the tongue portion 23. The groove or recess 24 extends to the side edges of the tongue portion 23 and the terminal end portions of the groove or recess 24 are thus open and unobstructed for a purpose to be hereinafter described. The lower side of holder 13 also has a forwardly projecting tongue portion 25 thereon which is longer than tongue portion 23 and has a U-shaped slot 26 (Fig. 6) out therein to define a spring finger 27. The tongue portions 23 and 25 are disposed in substantially parallel planes and have a longitudinal length less than the longitudinal length of the substantially flat back portion 19 and define therewith the channel-shaped configuration, in section, of the holder 18. The end 28 of finger 27 is offset from the sliding movement of the bead through said terminal end portion of said groove.

2. The structure defined in claim 1 wherein one of said tongue portions has a longitudinally extending free leading edge inclined away from the other tongue por- 5 tion to facilitate the transverse relative movement of the groove and bead in overcoming the pressure exerted by the resilient spring means when removably securing the holder element and means together.

3. In a binder comprising a separable cover having top, bottom and back sections, a filler, an elongated unitary holder element secured centrally of the inside of the back section of said cover, a second element secured centrally of only one end marginal portion of said filler and removably secured to said holder element to hold the filler in the cover; said second element including a relative fiat portion having a longitudinally extending upstanding bead thereon, said holder element including a substantially fiat back portion, tongue portions projecting from said back portion in transversely spaced planes disposed substantially parallel to the relative fiat portion of said second element and defining with said back portion a channel, said tongue portions being of a length less than the length of said back portion, one of said tongue portions having a longitudinally extending groove registering with and receiving said bead to prevent relative transverse movement between the elements and to retain the filler in the cover, said groove having at least one terminal end portion thereof extending to one side edge of said one tongue portion to permit said head to be longitudinally slidable therethrough, the other tongue portion having a substantially U-shaped slot defining a finger portion, said finger portion being ofiset from the plane of said other tongue portion toward said one tongue portion into the space defined therehetween to provide a resilient spring means, whereby, the filler may be removably secured to the cover by transverse relative movement of the groove and bead overcoming pressure exerted by the resilient spring means to interengage the bead in the groove; secured together against transverse relative movement by such interengagement of the bead in the groove, and a remnant of the filler after use may be removed from the cover by relative longitudinal sliding movement of the bead through said terminal end portion of said groove.

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